Re: [sage-edu] Re: Solving Word Problems with Sage

2009-11-20 Thread William Stein
Hi, According to those articles posted on the Wolfram blog, Wolfram Alpha is "over 7 million lines of code" and maybe a decade of work by a lot of people. I wonder if one saw the actual queries that are made, if *most* of them (say the top 95%), then it would be relatively easy to implement some

[sage-edu] Re: Solving Word Problems with Sage

2009-11-20 Thread Jason Grout
David Joyner wrote: > On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 4:15 AM, Timothy Clemans > wrote: >> What should the first version of Sage Answers be able to do? >> > > Just to begin, you could try to set it up so that it can solve basic problems > that a freshman calculus student might ask. For example, the > plo